I understand that the name does not help. It’s not called icecreamshake for one.

Here is the issue: You go out for a burger you ask for a milkshake. Not chocolate milk and specially not milk with cheap crappy semi-expired chocolate syrup from the bargain shop, but that is what you get here 90% of the time.

The human constant: Protein surrounded by carbs

Empanada, pierogi, ravioli, tortellini, sausage rolls, pigs in a blanket, oniguiri, even hamburgers and hotdogs. You name the civilization and you have protein packed in carbs. That’s what it means to be human we kill animals and put them inside ground plants mixed with water. That and mispronouncing names from other languages.

One city, many discoveries

Dundee is almost boastful for it’s discoveries: the autoadesive stamp, the marmalade, and so many others that I can certainly name and account for without the need of flattery and distraction to point you, dear intelligent reader, into another direction: The Tayberry

Born of crossing blackberries and red raspberries in this very city, by the river ...

Fitting in

This is my new life in Scotland! It does look like the old life in São Paulo, doesn’t? The truth is I think that you move faster than you change. One of the things that gives me the creeps is Brazilians that move abroad and 6 months later come back unable to adapt and missing home food. There’s ...

Dundee or bust

My wife got a grant to do her PhD in the University of Dundee, so in a very short time we stashed some stuff, sold a lot of other stuff and packed a somewhat reduced list of more stuff that would fit four 32 kg suitcases and parted for Dundee, UK.

When you have it you have to use it

Some time ago I stumbled on a bunch of the new season ginger on the Asian market close by my place. And by “some time ago” I mean almost an year ago (this is one of those posts that stay forever on my backlog).

The single most popular request that I get

Yup. First thing I thought was you people take me for someone else. An obvious case of mistaken identity, I guess, but it got me thinking. It could do a kind of a flag into the post that said veggie or not, or a sub-blog something on the line of veggie.secreteproject ...

Amazing food from Indonesia

Wait what? Did you say Dutch food? Yup: Satay is a traditional Netherlands food from Indonesia. Indonesia used to be a Dutch colony, remember all that Dutch East and West India Companies and so on? Somehow their colony empire relationship was very different from what we had between Brazil and Portugal.

My Experience with Food in the US of A

First of all: DISCLAIMER: I should not need to say it, but all of this are my limited experience (I did stay mostly in Virginia and North Carolina ,not the WHOLEUSA), my biased views and above all my little minded ..huh.. mind.

Squid!

The order is as follow: Cut the squid, cut the garlic, mix both. Finely cut the parsley (you will not have time later). Heat the pan on infernal heat, add the squid and garlic, salt to taste. 3 minutes. turn of heat add parsley ...

It’s complicated (the situation, not the recipe)

My Croatian grandmother evocative was not Baka, but Nonna.

The thing is: Nonno and Nonna escaped from Croatia into Italy. (Yeah they escaped into an Italy controlled by Mussolini, smart) and they had my father there. So as it happens my father is Italian, my grandparents were Croatian but called nonno and nonna ...

There is another famous institution in Tel Aviv: the “Said el Abu Lafia and Sons Bakery”. I’ve heard from it by some four or five different sources, so it was another of those places that I had to try.

The instructions were falsely difficult for being so easy on how to get there. It said something about get on the ...

But I will be travel blogging

Or more precisely food travel blogging. It comes down to why I travel. I could say that I travel to experience new cultures, and although true and a little bit cheesy, ok very cheesy, it is not the complete history. The full truth is I travel because I like it a lot.

The mystery sauce

Just recently when we (the wife and I) were in Uruguay for our honeymoon we went for a barbecue at the central market. Sure it was a gigantic tourist trap, or at least most of the restaurants there were. We found a place to eat which A) had some natives eating there and B) had no tables ...

The dressing

Ok it is shameful that I am posting a recipe this simple, but bear with me for a moment. these croutons are wonderful and multi-propose. It is the best stuffing that you can have for a chicken or fish.

Last time that we went to the farm we came home with over 3 kilos of limes, not only ...

The Mojo

I do admit: I like invisibility. Invisibility in a very specific way: IM invisibilty. The best way to do that is to hide in plain sight. So I am always available on all instant messengers all the time.

Add that to the fact that I live on a weird timezone and there’s not a way to know if ...

The quest for shrimp

Since last Thursday I’ve been in a mood for shrimp.

Here in Brazil we say that the best time for shrimp are the months that don’t have an “r” on its name. May, June, July, August in case you wondered. During those months the price goes slightly down and they are slightly larger. And in case ...